The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 149
“Sea Catch,” she said, at last, “our baby’s going to be white!”
Who acts: mother · What happens: say, go, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Catch | punct |
| 2 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Catch | compound |
| 3 | Catch | catch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Catch | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Catch | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 last | punct |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ’s | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ’s | punct |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 baby | nmod:poss |
| 14 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ’s | nsubj |
| 15 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 going | aux |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 white | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 white | cop |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 going | xcomp |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | white property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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